A little guidance.

Getting started

Navitosh is free and runs on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 26 or later.

1. Download Navitosh 1.1.2.
2. Double-click the ZIP to unpack it.
3. Move Navitosh.app to your Applications folder, then open it.

There is no Navitosh account to set up. The app works with your real files, using your Mac’s file permissions. macOS may ask for access when you open protected folders.

Finding your way

The Places sidebar puts Home, Recent, Applications, standard folders and Trash within reach. Add bookmarks for the folders you use most. Mounted disks and shares are available under Other Locations.

Click the breadcrumbs in the toolbar to move to a parent folder, or press ⌘L to enter a path. Press Tab in the path field to complete a directory name or choose among matches.

Open a new tab with ⌘T. Each tab keeps its own location, history, selection, sort order and search filters. Drag tabs to reorder them, or pull one out into a separate window. Reopen a closed tab with ⇧⌘T.

Choose Show All Tabs with ⇧⌘O to find and switch between open tabs. You can give tabs custom labels from their context menus.

Views and previews

Use ⌘1 for Grid and ⌘2 for List. View Options lets you change sorting, show folders first and choose visible details. Press ⇧⌘. to show or hide hidden files.

Press Space with a file selected to open native Quick Look. Press ⌘I for Properties, including file information, permissions and folder sizes. Properties windows stay separate so you can compare items while browsing.

In Settings → Views, enable Expand folders in List view to browse nested folders without leaving the current view. Thumbnail settings can be configured independently for local folders, external drives and shares.

Searching

Press ⌘F, or start typing in Grid or List, to search. A new search includes the current folder and its subfolders. Press Down to focus the results.

Navitosh combines Spotlight results with recursive filename search, so filenames can still be found in locations Spotlight hasn’t indexed. Search Options can narrow results by filename matching, extension, file type, file size and dates. Indexed content search depends on Spotlight and its permissions.

Search Everywhere broadens the search to indexed locations; it does not recursively scan every disk. Recent also depends on indexed metadata.

Use Open Item Location from a result’s context menu to reveal its containing folder. Back and Forward retain the search query and filters.

Moving and copying

Select files and use ⌘C, ⌘X and ⌘V to copy, cut and paste. You can also drag between folders, tabs, windows and other apps.

Transfers appear in the sidebar. Open the transfer panel to see progress, speed, remaining data and estimated time. Use Pause and Resume to control eligible jobs. Interrupted jobs reopen paused so you can explicitly resume them.

When a destination already exists, Navitosh offers Replace, Rename and Cancel. Replacing a destination is an explicit decision; Undo does not restore the old destination discarded by a completed replacement.

Supported operations have guarded Undo and Redo, which check that later changes won’t be overwritten. If files have changed or a location is unavailable, an operation may stop and report what needs attention. File operations can take longer on a network share or external disk.

Do not manually move temporary copies while recovering an interrupted job. If a job reports retained output, use Show Temporary Copies to find it.

Batch renaming

Select multiple items, then choose Rename from the context menu. The preview shows the final names and checks for collisions before you apply changes.

• Use a template with original names, sequential numbers or file creation/modification dates.
• Use Find and Replace to change part of each name, with an optional Ignore case setting.
• Enable Keep file extensions to preserve extensions while changing the name.
• Expand Advanced for ordering, numbering step and padding, name case, prefixes, suffixes, trimming and extension replacement.

Advanced options still apply when the disclosure is collapsed. Batch renaming supports Undo/Redo and recovery after interruption. Once a batch has started, use Pause/Resume rather than Cancel. A changed destination can still make a previewed job stop safely.

Archives and file tools

Use the context menu to create ZIP or TAR/XZ archives, or to extract ZIP and common tar archives. Extraction output stays in hidden staging until it is ready to publish. Archive recovery restarts the job rather than continuing partway through a compressed stream. Encrypted archives and 7Z creation are not offered.

For a regular file, open Properties → SHA-256 and choose Calculate to check its digest. You can copy the checksum or compare it with an expected value. Checksums are calculated only when you ask.

The context menu also provides Copy Path, relative paths, shell-quoted paths, filenames and file URLs. Open Folder in Terminal opens the selected folder, or the current folder from its background menu.

Permissions and settings

Navitosh respects macOS file permissions. If a protected folder is unavailable, review access in macOS System Settings. The app can open the Full Disk Access settings page, but only you can grant that permission. Browsing other accessible locations remains available without it.

In Settings → General → Language, choose an interface language or Follow macOS. Quit and reopen Navitosh after changing the language. Some translations are initial drafts and may need refinement.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
⌘L	Enter a path
Tab in path entry	Complete a folder name
⌘[ / ⌘]	Back / Forward
⌘↑	Parent folder
⌘T / ⌘W	New tab / Close tab or window
⌘N	New window
⇧⌘T	Reopen a closed tab
⇧⌘O	Show all tabs
⇧⌘N	New folder
⌘F	Search
⌘1 / ⌘2	Grid / List
⇧⌘.	Show hidden files
Space	Quick Look
Return	Open selection
F2	Rename inline
⌘I	Properties
⌘C / ⌘X / ⌘V	Copy / Cut / Paste
⌥⌘C	Copy location
⌘Delete	Move to Trash
⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z	Undo / Redo

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